It never ceases to amaze me as to why the mass of humanity in Indian subcontinent bears everything quietly despite the injustice.
Be it the so called "Mumbai Spiritt" which is nothing but callous indifference to the total lack of participation by urban majority in the poll process. At the same time, the urban educated youth hardly deliberates in the civic polls.. be it the municipal elections or state level. The ones seen in the limelight are hoping to get on the gravy train with their hangers on.
Why this disdain? A democracy is supposed to be participatory; I guess Gujarat is the only state which has made casting the vote as mandatory. If we see the actual results on ground i.e. Roads, power and other forms of infrastructure and making the Government accountable for delivery, that would be a utopian dream. A dysfunctional system is allowed to pervade because a small voting percentage gets the same set of elected representatives loot us repeatedly, the so call vote banks. In order to nurture the vote banks, the entry bar is set really high leaving out the common educated class disenfranchised. People's expectations cannot be matched by "issue based statements" alone since most of us are used to the idea of state feeding from it's vast coffers.
It's important to understand the systematic faults before we advocate "fixing the system" or having a fancy idea like "right to recall".
Oh by the way having a quasi-judicial body like Lokpal is not going to help; it's going to create another lethargic behemoth unaccountable to public or parliament.
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